National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) under the aegis of the Department of Pharmaceuticals fixes the ceiling price of scheduled medicines as per provisions of  the  Drugs (Prices Control…

HELPING TO REDUCE TEACHER ABSENCES WITH ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

In 2019, over 900,000 K-12 teachers were absent from their classes for the whole school year. This equates to 28 percent of teachers across the country who are chronically absent. With the increase…

World Humanitarian Day

The 19th of August is marked as the World Humanitarian Day by the UN General Assembly. On this day, in 2003, a bomb attack in Iraq killed 22 Humanitarian aid workers. Each year, a theme of global …

Ban on Single Use Plastic from July 2022

The Environment Ministry released a notification on 12th August,2021, about ban on single-use plastic items. The Ministry’s notification on waste management amendment, 2021, states that “The manuf…

Mental Illnesses doubled among youth : Latest Study

Latest study by JAMA Pediatrics, a medical journal, reveals that Anxiety and Depression has doubled among the youth globally, as compared to the pre-Covid period. The analysis was published on 9th …

Google's new update to Protect Children Online

Currently, the number of children involved in online activities are increasing by the day. With online classes and other activities, cyberspace is the new learning space for the kids. It is extreme…

International Youth Day

Nelson Mandela once said "The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow" . August 12th is celebrated as the International Youth Day . The Youth Day was declared by the UN in 1999, to rec…

IPCC Report: Need for Climate Action

The latest sixth assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on 9th August, 2021, indicates some key areas of concern related to climate change. According to the re…

Puri: First city in India with "Drink-from-Tap" facility

Puri , located in Odisha , became the first Indian city with 24x7 clean drinking water from tap facility. The “Drink from Tap Project” was inaugurated on 2nd August 2021. The drink from tap facili…

Assam & Mizoram Conflict

India is the  tenth-largest country  by land. Carved out of 565 princely states & 17 provinces at the time of Independence, which were just 14 states and 6 union territories. With time number of …

E RUPI

On 2 August 2021 , a digital payment solution was launched by the honorable prime minister of India.  E RUPI is a cashless and contactless payment method. Through it, the government is trying to bri…

New Regulations for Gold

Gold  is not just an asset in India it holds significance in our culture. Being the symbol of the  Goddess Lakshmi  and considered to be auspicious. It is part of several cultural and social events o…

SPORTS AND GAMES

SPORTS AND GAMES   Games play an important role in children's health both mentally and physically. Now-a-days they are adapted to video games rather than playing games in the real world with the …

STAYING MOTIVATED WHILE STUDYING

Some people say that the hardest step in studying is to get started. Once you have taken the first step, the rest is easy, they suggest. Other people, however, find it difficult to stay motivated whe…

OnePlus launched Nord 2 5G in India, details here...

OnePlus launched Nord 2 5G in India. It has been almost a year since the launch of the OnePlus Nord. Though OnePlus has brought major changes in the new Nord 2 5G like, it is the first OnePlus devi…